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I discovered crystal therapy and crystal healing by accident. I borrowed a book from the libary to identify some tumblestones that my six year old son had collected, and the book talked about placing crystals on chakra points locations where energy lines meet or cross within your body. In a slightly different manner, a crystal point is a sharp pointed end on a crystal, whether natural or carved. I was very skeptical but decided to give it a go. When i picked up a crystal, I experienced a very strange feeling, which I now know was my energy shifting, and thought that maybe I had done something wrong, so I tried again the next day and got exactly the same result. This fired up my curiosity, and in time, I acquired different crystals to work with and borrowed books from the libary, giving me different different ways to lay the crystals on and around my body.
Five years later, after attending a workshop and working on other people, I decided to train to become a certified crystal therapist so that I could help other people experience what crystals can do for them.
Crystal Therapy and Crystal Healing
Crystal therapy is a treatment in which crystals are placed on and around the body. Crystals can aslo be moved ober the body for example, by using a pendulum. Crystal healing occurs when crystal therapy is combimed with another holistic treatment, such as massage, Reiki, spiritual healing, and acupuncture.
Working with Crystals
Working with crystals can help us to shift energy and emotions that we have been holding on to, such as issues from the past that are holding us back or affecting our everyday lives. Crystals are also good for clearing away stress or energy that we have picked up from others, and they can enable us to feel calmer and to think more clearly.
On a molecular level, crystals resonate at different frequencies. The frequency depends on factors such as the crystals structure, which is called the crystal system or crystal habit, and the color of the crystal. We are aware, subconsciously, of energy around us, and placing crystals on or around the body can help to bring balance by increasing or decreasing the frequency of our own engery. This in turn helps the client we're working on to feel more relaxed and positive, allowing the body to heal itself more effectively.
Crystals will absorb and hold energy, which is why quartz crystals are used in clocks, watches, and circuit boards. The quartz absorbs energy from the power source, and emits it in a regular pulse, making it a useful reliable technical resource.
The hardness of a crystal affects the way that it works. Hard crystals like quartz work in a direct way, where as softer crystals such as calcite are gentler and absorb energy more readily. A crystals hardness is measured on the Mohs scale, which was created by mineralogist Friedrich Mohs in 1812. He listed crystals and minerals in order of softest to hardest, which makes talcum number one and diamond number ten. The table opposite shows the scale of hardness as devised by Friedrich Mohs.

It is useful to know how hard a crystal or mineral is so that it may be stored appropriately. If you keep all your crystals in the same storage box, any hard crystals will damage the softer ones.
Crystal Colors and Properties
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The energy of multi-colored crystals varies, because there is often more than one mineral involved. For example, quartz will enchance the energy of any mineral inclusion, such as tourmalinated quartz that is bonded with black tourmaline, where as ruby in zoisite is more green than red. On the other hand, labradorite is a greenish-gray stone with flashes of yellows, blues, and purples and works more in a dark-blue and purple way.
Crystal Systems and Crystal Habit
The structured form in which a crystal grows is called a system or habit. It may sound technical, but a crystals system can tell you a bit about the type of energy a crystal emits. Some crystal books explain the crystal systems in detail, and you can find them in depth information about the systems on the internet. Unfortunately, length restrictions prevent this book from going into a great amount of detail, but you will fimd more about this in chapter ten on crystal grids.
When you see a crystal listed as helping with a certain use or condition, it is often based on the habit of the crystal as well as its color. So, for example, amethyst is often suggested for headaches and migraines. This makes sense, as purole resonates with the crown chakra, but amethyst is also a trigonal crystal, which helps to calm excess energy.
Enclosed Crystal Grid Cards
Included in this book is a set of seven double-sided cards to use for your crystal practice that contain fourteen crystal grid patterns. See chapter 10 for more information on how to use them.
